About this blog
This is the newest version of my "Numbers and Shapes" blog, containing material on elementary mathematics, mathematics education, software, and anything else that takes my fancy.
It is created in Hugo, a static blog engine which is blindingly fast, and works by simply serving up static html files (along with any necessary javascript). There is no database, and far less to fiddle with than with wordpress. Because it is static there is less opportunity for user input (such as comments) but that's not an issue for me, as about 99.99% of comments to my previous blog were spam. User comments can be configured, using for example Disqus, but I won't bother. If people want to contact me, they can email.
And this is me, on the observation deck of the Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai:
!amca
All files relating to this blog are available on my github repo whats_this. You can check the configuration, the emacs org-file which contains what I actually write, and files generated by ox-hugo and by Hugo itself. The combinations of emacs, emacs org-mode, and ox-hugo, make creating content for this blog a great pleasure, and far far easier than working with wordpress. The only issue I've found so far is that Mathjax is not quite as powerful as the wordpress QuickLaTeX plugin. But that's currently a price I'm very happy to pay.